Paper Matters

When I got serious about writing fiction in 2009, I discovered words came to me at the most inopportune times.

In the showerWhile driving down the highwayWaiting for a red light to changeWaking me from a dead sleep and demanding attention

Becoming an author changed the way I organized my life. A passport-sized notebook went into my purse. I stashed another in my car. I slipped a reporter on my beside table and wrote notes in the dark so those ideas would still be there in the morning.

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